All About Your Child

Today is the Last Day of the one month long School Holidays, Yippeee!!!! Finally, my life can be back to the more predictable routine, instead of squeezing my brain for new stuff to do with them day in, day out.

You see, during school holidays, they don’t nap because they wake up really late. Then the question of “Mommy, can you play with me”will come right after they had their morning milk and this will continue to wee hours like 1am! Their energy level is unbelievable!

This mid-year school break WAS really fruitful, especially for my preschool Keatkeat. Finally he is able to spell from 1-20, know the days of the week through the song I created, improve on his motor skills, which is still a little behind his 15 months younger bro in some ways, recognise almost 10 car brand logos, paint at home for the very first time, help to cook too, etc….

So on this last day, I tested him with this…. which my hubby thinks was too CONFUSING for a 4 year old. What do you think? Too confusing? Too tough on him?

But he scored really well, without any prompting or assistance, remember, its a Test. I wasn’t too harsh on him too, I gave him a chance to look through his answers twice before handing the worksheets back to me.

I’m glad I did gave him time to check over, ‘cos that’s when he noticed some mistakes he made, as you can see the signs of stuff being erased and rewritten over.

 Though he may not have scored full-marks for this last one, I’m happy with the results. He used to be much worse off.

My hubby still thinks that it was too tough for him…..hmmmm

It’s funny how the old feeling of giving tuition to other kids, in my younger years, comes right back as I put every red tick on each correct answer and (as usual) give lots of stars…..Keatkeat wanted 39 stars and I granted his wish. *smile*

Since I gave some tips on how to get more petrol for the price you pay on yesterday’s post. I guess today’s post on cars would be more than appropriate, with a slight twist….

“Come Mommy…..we’ve got a surprise for you……” cried Binbin

“Look! I made a multistorey carpark for my cars. Now they’ve got a place to park so the police cannot come and fine them….” reported Keatkeat.

It’s definitely a surprise, it was the most constructive, thoughtful and useful thing this little guy had ever made with his limited number of building blocks given by his grandma, my MIL.

Me: “Oh! That’s provided they have bought season parking ticket like what Papa did.”

Keatkeat: “Don’t worry. They buy already.”

Me: “Oh! Wow!” *Laugh*

Keatkeat: “So can you play with us now?” (as usual I was scuba diving in the bloggy-ocean)

Me: “Ok!” And this was my kind of game!

Keatkeat: “Mommy, one more, one more….”

But the white car didn’t make it to the top….shucks! so sad! That intense expression on Keatkeat’s face was what kept me stacking up higher and higher…its so fun to watch how all his facial muscles all squashed up….*laugh*

So who was the one who say cars are boring toys, which can only roll on four wheels? Hhummm? How is this? With its irregular shape, it’s kind of challenging. *wink*